Abdurraheem el-Keib, a dual US-Libyan citizen, has been elected prime minister of Libya by
members of the National Transitional Council who voted in a televised
event on Monday, sticking ballots into a transparent box.

Expectations
are high for el-Keib in a country with persisting battles going on in
loyalist pockets of Libya, large unsecured weapons stockpiles, serious
charges of war crimes committed by NTC fighters, and a war torn country
to try to mend together.

Keib attended University
of Tripoli in 1973, earned his M.S. at the University of Southern
California in 1976, and his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in
1984. He has taught as a professor for many years at the University of
Alabama, the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE).

Most recently, he served as Chair of the Electrical Engineering
Department at The Petroleum Institute in UAE before joining Libya’s
interim council last spring. His research has been funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF), the Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI), the US Department of Energy (US DoE), Southern Company Services
(SC), and Alabama Power Company (APCO).